More on the upcoming debate.

Simon "greatly enjoyed the Russell-Simon co-operation" and has made an appointment for BR and Hetherington.

On Clifford Allen; Poincaré; Jeans and quantum theory; Whitehead.

Simon is holidaying in Taormina and suggests a meeting.

Sanger did not believe the rumour of BR's death. He cannot get a ticket to Einstein's lectures but is reading his papers.

BR's statement for the Manchester meeting is "exactly right".

On the ignorance of statesmen (Khrushchev and the German Social Democrats).

He feels much happier about BR's future now that he has seen BR and Dora together.

Simon proposes that Wayland Young write a book about the subject of the Lords debate.

BR will soon be very busy with a television undertaking with Woodrow Wyatt.

"Dear Charlie, I don't think I have ever expressed the deep affection I have for you, but I suppose you have known of it."

BR has news that Sanger's health is improving.

A note in Edith's hand: "From Charles Sanger's wife".

On BR being sent to prison; others will be suffering with BR.

BR will not come to the funeral. Sanger "was the gentlest human being I have ever known."

On Frank Russell: "I felt my brother's death very deeply...."

On Otto Guttchan, a pacifist.

On Czechoslovakia. "Charlie and Crompton and Ottoline were my only really close friends among contemporaries, and now all three are dead."

"Yes, the atomic bomb makes one have to reconsider all sorts of things. I have never, not even in 1940, felt the outlook as gloomy as now. Everything is working up for a war between USA and USSR, with us a satellite of USA; both sides will use atomic bombs, and very little will be left at the end.—In the interval between the general election and the atomic bomb I had been feeling rather happy; but at the crack of Truman's whip the British government will have to relinquish all its projects."

On his Westminster School address, where he was "considering possibilities". Only The Times and The Observer would print his denial.

"I seem never to get to the end of the lying report you heard. What happened was this:

I made an address at Westminster School, considering the possibilities. I thought no reporter was present, but there was one, and he a communist. His untrue report got into all the papers. I instantly denied it, but no paper would print my denial except the Times and the Observer. However, the Nineteenth Century printed a verbatim report of my address about 8 months ago I think."

Re an early photograph of himself.

BR now has "bibliorrhoea".

Iversen tells BR that Louis Hjelmslev, Professor of Comparative Linguistics, "will hold a short lecture giving a brief outline of your work as a writer, emphasizing in particular the importance of your writings to the European civilization."

The Minister of Education will give a dinner in BR's honour. Also in file: a TLS(CAR).

15-20 minutes for BR's speech would be suitable.

BR asks if evening clothes will be required "and, if so, whether tails or dinner jacket".

BR will arrive April 18 and depart the 20th. BR is refusing other invitations.

BR wishes "to thank you and your colleagues, especially Professor Hjelmslev, for making our stay in Copenhagen so wholly delightful." "... our gratitude to the Minister of Education both for the dinner and for the very pleasant and welcome things which he said in his speech." P.S. the endorsed cheque has not been received by the bank.

BR thanks Iversen for "the enclosed copy of your very delightful address and that of Professor Hjelmslev which came this morning. Both my wife and I look forward to reading these at leisure."

[They are stored in BR's medals and awards box with a photograph of the award presentation.]

BR asks for permission to publish "Old and Young Cultures".

BR will not be able to see Iversen in London.

Sonning requests the ms. of "Old and Young Cultures" and that BR sign "the best" photograph from his Danish visit.

Sonning asks permission to publish "Old and Young Cultures" in Anglo Dania.

BR sends the autographed photograph and the typescript of "Old and Young Cultures", which never existed in ms.

Simon has confirmed the book with Wayland Young (see 2 enclosed letters to Young).

Simon needs to know if BR agrees to his Manchester speech being recorded.

Re speaking and meeting arrangements for Manchester.

Simon's chauffeur will pick up the Russells in Wales (100 miles away) and Simon has arranged an interview with Hetherington.

Simon's speech for the Manchester meeting.

Webb congratulates BR on his Fellowship and invites him to dinner.

Simon praises the Observer's editorial of May 3 (of which a transcription is at document .056022).

Gaitskell will be glad to lunch with BR and Simon on June 24 or 25. Simon hopes to see BR in Wales "in the second half of Whit Week".

Simon writes of meetings with Gaitskell, Young, Buzzard and Buchan.

Enclosed is a copy of a letter to Rotblat.

Simon encloses a note on BR's call re Rotblat. (BR thinks Pugwash still has important work to do on bacteriological warfare.)

On Wayland Young's anti-nuclear book project.

Simon asks if BR prefers to meet Gaitskell without Young, a letter to whom he encloses.

Simon asks BR to evaluate his proposal to fund a secretary for Rotblat.

Simon presents several points and reminds him of the lunch with Gaitskell.

Simon encloses an evaluation of Rotblat (record 9107) by Blackett and a copy of a letter to Rotblat (record 131025) offering him assistance with his Pugwash endeavours.

On Young's book.

Simon thanks BR for his 80th birthday contribution and says he has greatest confidence in BR's advice.

Simon asks whether he should support Bernal's group and the National Peace Council.

On meetings.

Simon will come to BR's house on Dec. 17.

Simon asks for a change in an appointment.

BR agrees to a change in an appointment with Simon.

Simon asks BR about supporting Norman Angell's next book, which is described in Angell's long letter to Simon enclosed.

BR does not think "much purpose would be served" by BR discussing with Angell.

On K. Zilliacus's group.

A note at the top indicates BR's cabled reply. BR will be happy to send a message but will not attend Zilliacus's meeting.

Simon suggests a meeting.

On Noel-Baker and the United Nations.

Enclosed: "Conference of Delegates of UNAS from the Ten Nations taking part in the new Committee which is to restart negotiations for comprehensive disarmament, on March 15 in Geneva".

Document .056044, record 131026, is a letter (TL(TC)) from Simon to Philip Noel-Baker.

Simon asks BR if he should give Collins £2,000 for a European branch organization of CND.

Simon is anxious to talk with BR. Soon after U-2, he refers to "the unpredictable behaviour of most of the world leaders".

BR cannot meet Simon at present. The world "situation is perplexing".

BR plans to attend a (CND?) meeting on May 6 and will try to produce a draft for discussion.

On meeting arrangements.

In French.

Schweitzer defers to BR in providing an anti-nuclear text (he is "too occupied and fatigued").

In German.

On the willingness of the U.S. to use atomic weapons over Berlin.

In German.

The photo shows Schweitzer with his pelican, "my companion".

In French.

On the war in Katanga; the UN and the Congo.

In German.

On Katanga and the Congo.

In French.

Schweitzer declines to attend BR's conference on committee on the Kennedy assassination.

Schweitzer again declines to join BR's Kennedy assassination committee.

The Minto diaries are enclosed (not present).

Having received a reply from BR, Selety writes again about his system.

Selety describes political conditions in Austria and Hungary.

On philosophy.

On Alexander Varjas.

Seward thanks BR for Satan in the Suburbs.

On Wittgenstein's implied epistemology. The offprint is "Qu'est-ce qu'un Concept?".

On the influence of mathematical-logical symbolism on Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

On metaphysics and the Tractatus.

BR is occupied with matters that are remote from those of Shalom's letter and will not be in London in July to meet Shalom.

Shalom asks for the return of his article on Wittgenstein.

BR asks for travelling expenses for English scientists to attend Pugwash.